. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ' 1G4 rKJit\)CIAL GUALLAT0RE3 â LIMICOL^. f 2Igialiti8 alezandrina nivosa. THE BHOWT FLOVEB. tEijialUis nivom, ('Aiwix, in Builds U. N. Am. 1S58, OOtt (San Franei8;;o, Cal.). âB\iiil>, Cat. N. Am. li. 1808, no. uOD. ^Eiji(i''iniii, var. , liiiiuw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 100. â Coi'Es, Chock List, 1873, A|ni. p. lii'i, no. 401. .Egiiilili'i â¢â 'iiili'iiiii-t , Norn. N. .Vni. B. 1882, no. 521.âCoUEs, Check List, 2d eil. 1882, no. 5111. ^Eginlili* canlianuK,
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ' 1G4 rKJit\)CIAL GUALLAT0RE3 â LIMICOL^. f 2Igialiti8 alezandrina nivosa. THE BHOWT FLOVEB. tEijialUis nivom, ('Aiwix, in Builds U. N. Am. 1S58, OOtt (San Franei8;;o, Cal.). âB\iiil>, Cat. N. Am. li. 1808, no. uOD. ^Eiji(i''iniii, var. , liiiiuw. Am. Nat. VIII. 1874, 100. â Coi'Es, Chock List, 1873, A|ni. p. lii'i, no. 401. .Egiiilili'i â¢â 'iiili'iiiii-t , Norn. N. .Vni. B. 1882, no. 521.âCoUEs, Check List, 2d eil. 1882, no. 5111. ^Eginlili* canlianuK, ('"ri;s, Key, 1872, 215. Had. Wt'steru Provimc "I' N'tniii AincriLa, both coasts of Midtlle America, nnd Western South Aim'i'ii'.'i as l"iir as Cliili ; Ciilni I' Si'. CiiAK. Hill sK'iiilt r, wliolly (Ucp Mack, as h\v^ as the middle toe. AtluU vml : Fonjhead, Biiponiliary rt'ijion, indistinct nuchal collar, and entire lower parts, pure white ; a hand acros* the fore part of the crown, auriculars, ami tran.'tverse jMitch on each side of the breast, black. Upiier. Smnmer plitmafie. parts, rather li>?ht brownish fjray, the crown and occiput usually tinged with lifrht reddish buff. Primaries, dusky with white shafts, the inner (juills marked with white ; inner secondaries almost m t , Lawii. (Aim. Lye. N. Y. VII. Feb. 1802, p. 455), presumably the same species. T le (li'sciiptjoii is as follows : â " Fniidli-: ('rowii, iH'ciput, niid Imck ciiiPi'i'ous, the fentlicrs with grnyisii-wliitc mnrj;iiis ; winR-i'ovorts xoniovvlint darker tiiaii tin' back, tL> ends of the larger coverts white, formin}; a transverse liiir on the wing ; primaries iiinlKT-brown with tlit' iunei' wel)s lighter, except at tin- enct with the adult female ;'. «u'ni»(, and is prolmbly of a s|)ociinen of that species. But a single specimen was captured, this being a fonmle caught with a not while sitting on her three eggs : the time Wing -July, and the pla
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